- Description
- Specifications
Fast Wi-Fi 6 That Holds Up in Crowded Rooms
A packed classroom or conference hall full of laptops, phones, and IoT sensors can bring an ordinary access point to its knees. The HPE Aruba AP-514 is built for exactly that: a dual-radio Wi-Fi 6 access point that uses OFDMA and MU-MIMO to serve many devices at once, pushing an aggregate 5.4Gbps with external antennas for tuned coverage. Explore more HPE networking or other wireless access points.
Ideal Deployments
- High-density spaces: schools, lecture halls, retail branches, hotels, and enterprise offices.
- Rooms where external antennas let you shape coverage to the space.
- IoT and location services, using the built-in Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee radios.
- Campus networks managed through HPE Aruba, with ClientMatch steering clients to the best radio.
Highlights
- Dual-radio Wi-Fi 6: 4x4:4 in 5GHz and 2x2:2 in 2.4GHz, with OFDMA, MU-MIMO, and 1024-QAM.
- 5.4Gbps aggregate: up to 4.8Gbps in the 5GHz band and 575Mbps in the 2.4GHz band.
- External antennas: the AP-514 uses external antenna connectors, unlike the internal-antenna AP-515.
- High client capacity: up to 256 associated devices per radio for dense environments.
- Dual Ethernet with a 2.5GbE HPE Smart Rate port, PoE powered, plus Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee, and a limited lifetime warranty.
Does the Aruba AP-514 have internal or external antennas?
The AP-514 uses external antennas, which connect to antenna ports on the unit so you can match coverage to the space, whether that means directional antennas for a long corridor or a specific pattern for a warehouse. If you would rather have an equivalent access point with built-in internal antennas, that is the Aruba AP-515. Both are dual-radio Wi-Fi 6 access points from the 510 series with the same 5.4Gbps aggregate throughput.
